It costs anywhere between $30.00-$80.000 to attend a college in the US. If you receive a scholarship award it will cover some of the costs of attending the college. A full scholarship means that the college will pay for your tuition, accommodation, food, books and fees.

TOEFL
The English language proficiency exams is the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) test. English language proficiency exams may be required for non-native English speakers applying to postgraduate study in the US.

However, this requirement may be waived by an admissions office if a student has completed most of his/her schooling/university in an English-speaking country.

The costs of the TOEFL test are $ 245,00

SAT and ACT
The SAT is one of two admissions tests (the ACT being the other), often required for admission to US universities. The SAT Reasoning Test is a three hour and forty-five minute test comprised of three sections: Critical Reading, Math, and Writing. The test is designed to measure critical thinking and analytical skills.

The SAT-test is offered several times per year and costs around $ 90,00.

After a college, university, or English language school has accepted you for admission to full-time study, the school will send you a document called an I-20 form, which is the application for an F-1 visa.

As a student you should take into account costs for travelling, insurance and cost for housing and daily living.

NCAA Division I is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States. D-I schools include the major collegiate athletic powers, with larger budgets, more elaborate facilities, and more athletic scholarships than Divisions II and III as well as many smaller schools committed to the highest level of intercollegiate competition.

Schools in the NCAA Division II emphazise a life ballance in which acadmeically and athletically gifted students can compete a a high level, while maintaining a tradional collegiate experience.

There are currently 300 full and 20 provisional members of Division II with 7 moving to full membership in September 2015. Division II schools tend to be smaller public universities and many private institutions. A large minority of Division II institutions (133 schools / 42%) have fewer than 2,499 students. Only six institutions have more than 15,000 students. Division II has a diverse membership, with two active member institutions in Alaska and four in Hawaii. Additionally, it is the only division that has member institutions in Puerto Rico and the only division that has expanded its membership to include an international member institution. Simon Fraser University became the first institution outside the US to enter the NCAA membership process. This occurred after the Division II Membership Committee accepted the institution’s application during a July 7–9 meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana. Simon Fraser, located in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby, British Columbia, began a two-year candidacy period September 1, 2009. Prospective members also must complete at least one year of provisional status before being accepted as full-time Division II members. In the fall of 2012, the NCAA President’s Council officially approved Simon Fraser University as the organization’s first international member.

Academics are the primary focus for Divison III student-athletes who xeperience shorter sport seasons, reducing their time away from academic studies and other campus activities.

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) is an athletic association that organizes college and university-level athletic programs among smaller institutions, primarily across the United States but also outside the US. The NAIA has two members in Canada and at one point had another in the Bahamas, which made it the only international intercollegiate athletic association in North America until 2009. As of October 2013, the NAIA reports having 255 member institutions.

The NAIA, whose headquarters is in Kansas City, Missouri,sponsors 23 national championships. The CBS Sports Network, formerly called CSTV, serves as the national media outlet for the NAIA. On December 19, 2014, ESPNU, the college sports arm of the ESPN family of networks, began carrying the NAIA National Football Championship which was played in Daytona Beach, Florida, between Southern Oregon University and Marian University.

The National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA), founded in 1938, is an association of community college and junior college athletic departments throughout the United States. It is divided into divisions and regions. The current NJCAA holds 24 separate regions.

The idea for the NJCAA was conceived in 1937 at Fresno, California. A handful of junior college representatives met to organize an association that would promote and supervise a national program of junior college sports and activities consistent with the educational objectives of junior colleges.

The constitution presented at the charter meeting in Fresno on May 14, 1938, was accepted and the National Junior College Athletic Association became a functioning organization.

In 1949, the NJCAA was reorganized by dividing the nation into sixteen regions. The officers of the association were the president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, public relations director, and the sixteen regional vice presidents. Ironically, though the NJCAA was founded in California, it no longer operates there and has been supplanted instead by the unaffiliated California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA) with 100+ colleges participating.

An athletic scholarship is an award given out by College’s/Universities in the USA to talented athletes who can come in and make an impact in one of their sports teams. The cost of attending College can be very expensive; therefore an athletic scholarship will help to cover the costs.

Sports scholarships are given on a yearly basis. Many athletes and their families make the mistake of believing that athletic scholarships last all four years of college, but that’s not true. It means that they award you financial aid one year at a time. At the end of each year, scholarships are renewed by the coach and athletic department, provided that you remain eligible throughout the year. You are allowed to be on athletic scholarships for up to five years in your college career. Coaches are able to adjust the amount of the scholarship at the end of each year when it expires. That means they can increase, decrease, or get canceled altogether. In order to make sure that you maintain your good status and keep your scholarship, you need to make sure you do what is expected of you. As a student-athlete, that means keeping up in your classes, getting good grades, training and contributing to your team. If for some reason you become ineligible in any way, the coach has full right to give your scholarship away to someone else.

Only the coach of the university decides if he gives the athlete a full or partial scholarship.

The process of getting a sports scholarship in the United States can vary depending on your sport, age, country of origin, and other factors. However, here are the steps that are generally followed in the sports scholarship process.

Registration:
Complete our free online application form to register your interest with Global Sport and Study. This will enable our staff to process your inquiry promptly and to provide you with initial information regarding sports scholarships in America. We will contact you by phone or e-mail.

Interview:
During a first intake interview we will inform you about the options and possibilities for a scholarship in the USA.

Assessment:
If your application is accepted we will carry out a sporting and academic assessment which will allow our staff to identify your eligibility to gain scholarship funding. Our role is to best prepare you to maximize your scholarship funding within the following governing bodies; NCAA, NAIA, NJCAA, USCAA.

Athletic portfolio:
Global Sport and Study will take care of a media footage of your athletic performance, skills, postions you have played, etc.

Selection of universities and colleges:
We will advise you on the selection of universities and their programs.

Voorstellen aan universiteiten en coaches:
Global Sport and Study will take care of the promotion to the selected Universities and Colleges, based on your athletic and academic profile.

Coaching and advising:
We will also support you with procedure for applying for the required tests (SAT, TOEFL), your visa, with translating your diploma’s, NCAA and NAIA eligibility centre registration advice and guidance, etc. Once you leave for America on a sports scholarship, the team of Global Sport and Study will continue to be a point of contact for you should you require any assistance. We understand that this is a big move for our clients and want them to know that they can still come to us for advice or support during their studies.

Only the coach of the university decides if he gives the athlete a full or partial scholarship.

We would advise you to begin the process 2 years before leaving high school. The process from your initial application to starting your scholarship can take anywhere between 6-24 months depending on your sport and ability level.

Only the coach of the university decides if he gives the athlete a full or partial scholarship.